In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

Since the princes take the Earth for their own, it's fair that the philosophers reserve the sky for themselves and rule there, but they should never permit the entry of others.

There are three things I have loved but never understood. Art, music and women.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.